[PLUG] (OT) Use Lynx, go to Jail...

[Sandy Herring]

[ http://www.boingboing.net/2005/01/27/jailed_for_using_a_n.html ]

ObQuote:

    A Londonder made a tsnuami-relief donation using lynx -- a
    text-based browser used by the blind, Unix-users and others -- on
    Sun's Solaris operating system. The site-operator decided that this
    "unusual" event in the system log indicated a hack-attempt, and the
    police broke down the donor's door and arrested him.


Netcraft paints an interesting history of DEC's web server OS choices...

http://toolbar.netcraft.com/site_report?url=http://www.dec.org.uk

They are apparently currently sorely lacking in clues.

Sandy
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